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- > I was watching Star Trek VI "The Undiscovered Country" again last weekend.
- > If anyone has seen it, there is a part where the Kilgon moon explodes
- > sending out a "shock wave".
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- Ah yes, the Praxis explosion. Everybody loves that effect.
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- > I have tried creating a disc, asigning a fractal noise pattern
- > to it, then setting the transparency to 100% with the edge transparency
- > set to opaque and a high threshold value. Doesn't look very good.
-
- No that wouldn't work.
-
- > I was wondering if anyone knows a way to create that in LW.
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- Here is a short and simple summary: Create a long rectangular strip
- with 40 or more segments along the X axis with dimensions something
- like x=60, y=0, z=6. Save it. Perform a 360 degree X axis bend so that
- the strip loops around on itself. Save it as a morph target. Now load
- the first object and morph it 100% into the target. Then use multiple
- noise textures that move toward the center of the hoop and fall off
- to 100% transparent on the inside. Give your textures some velocity
- and then animate the whole thing by just scaling it up from size=0.
- Pretty easy, huh.
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